The Ways of the World

David Harvey

Traces eminent scholar David Harvey's career and intellectual development in this collection of his greatest essays

Ties Harvey's theories and arguments on a wide range of subjects together into a cohesive worldview

Proffers Harvey's vision of where the world is headed

The Ways of the World

David Harvey

Description

David Harvey is one of most famous Marxist intellectuals in the past half century, as well as one of the world's most cited social scientists. Beginning in the early 1970s with his trenchant and still-relevant book Social Justice and the City and through this day, Harvey has written numerous books and dozens of influential essays and articles on topics across issues in politics, culture, economics, and social justice.

In The Ways of the World, Harvey has gathered his most important essays from the past four decades. They form a career-spanning collection that tracks not only the development of Harvey over time as an intellectual, but also a dialectical vision that gradually expanded its reach from the slums of Baltimore to global environmental degradation to the American imperium. While Harvey's coverage is wide-ranging, all of the pieces tackle the core concerns that have always animated his work: capitalism past and present, social change, freedom, class, imperialism, the city, nature, social justice, postmodernity, globalization, and the crises that inhere in capitalism.

A career-defining volume, The Ways of the World will stand as a comprehensive work that presents the trajectory of Harvey's lifelong project in full.

Chapter 3Monument and MythThe Building of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart

Chapter 4Time-Space Compression and the Postmodern Condition

Chapter 5From Managerialism to EntrepreneurialismThe Transformation in Urban Governance in Late Capitalism

Chapter 6The Nature of Environment:The Dialectics of Social and Environmental Change

Chapter 7Militant Particularism

Chapter 8The New ImperialismAccumulation by Dispossession

Chapter 9The Urban Roots of Financial CrisesReclaiming the City for Anti-Capitalist Struggle

Chapter 10Capital Evolves

ConclusionWhere is the World Headed?

BibliographyAcknowledgementsIndex

The Ways of the World

David Harvey

Author Information

David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography, CUNY Graduate Center; author of many books, including A Brief History of Neoliberalism (OUP) and The Condition of Postmodernity (Blackwell).